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The Stark County Sheriff's Office is a law enforcement agency which serves Stark County, Ohio, United States. The county is 575 square miles and has a population of 375,432 and the county seat is Canton, Ohio.

Responsibilities

The sheriff is charged with the responsibility of maintaining the public peace and protecting the lives and property of all citizens in Stark County. His obligations and responsibilities have continuously grown throughout the years. The duties of the sheriff have increased as administrative procedures, court decisions, and requirements of the law have brought about sophisticated and technical advancements to law enforcement. The Stark County Sheriff's Office has five basic divisions which perform the varied duties required by Ohio law and the criminal justice system. These divisions are:

Contact Information

Sheriffs of Stark County

^[1] The current Sheriff is George T. Maier, who was appointed by the Democratic party to replace Michael A. McDonald because of McDonald's failing health. Sheriff George T. Maier, was elected to the post of County Sheriff in November 2014 to fill the unexpired term of Michael McDonald.

Hope Steffey incident

A local woman, Hope Steffey, sued the Sheriff's Office, claiming that male and female deputies used excessive force and assaulted her when they stripped her naked after she was arrested. Hope Steffey had called the police after she had been assaulted. Television station WKYC obtained video of the incident from Hope Steffey's attorney, shows male and female deputies forcefully removing the clothing of the handcuffed woman, before leaving her to sit naked in a cell for six hours.^[2] Police allege that Steffey had threatened to harm herself when asked if she was suicidal, to which she replied in the affirmative.^[3] Around November 2008, Hope Steffey initiated civil action against the Sheriff's Office.^[4] Stark County agreed to pay Steffey $475,000 in an out-of-court settlement in July 2009.^[5]^[6] Additional actions against related civilian contractors were later dismissed by the court.

Former Attorney General Marc Dann launched the state investigation into the Steffey case in February 2008 before later resigning for unrelated reasons. A Grand Jury subsequently declined to indict the county deputies involved.^[7]

Valentina Dyshko incident

Valentina Dyshko, a Ukrainian woman with limited English capability, filed suit alleging that she was the victim of a strip search by male officers at the Stark County Jail. This case was reportedly settled by the county in 2008.^[8]^[9]

Further victims and allegations

During the Steffey case, it was reported that 128 women had experienced these alleged strip searches, between 1999 and 2007. Privacy concerns prevented the identification of these women which led Steffey's lawyers to use billboards to encourage other women to come forward.^[10] Following the billboards and media reporting on the incident, five women, including Valentina Dyshko, came forward to report similar experiences with Stark County Sheriff's personnel.^[11] One of these women, "Elizabeth" (a pseudonym), was employed in a medium security jail and reported being accused of suicidal behavior and strip searched after being arrested for defending herself against inappropriate touching by a sheriff deputy during a traffic stop after she changed lanes without signaling. The sheriff accused her of failing a breath test when her asthma prevented her from blowing with sufficient strength.^[12] Only one case proceeded out of these five.

External links

References

1. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us/services.htm |title=Stark County Sheriff - History of the Sheriff |access-date=2007-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101090015/http://www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us/services.htm |archive-date=2007-01-01 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
2. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/02/22/hope_steffey_s_abu_ghraib_treatment_at_t |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104203601/http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/02/22/hope_steffey_s_abu_ghraib_treatment_at_t |archive-date=2011-01-04 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
3. ^WKYC - Exclusive: Strip search of woman by Sheriff's Deputies called outrageous
4. ^http://www.wkyc.com/news/investigative/investigative_article.aspx?storyid=100466&catid=230
5. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.cantonrep.com/crime/x737368570/Stark-County-Hope-Steffey-settle-suit-over-strip-search-at-jail |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090921135836/http://www.cantonrep.com/crime/x737368570/Stark-County-Hope-Steffey-settle-suit-over-strip-search-at-jail |archive-date=2009-09-21 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
6. ^{{Cite web |url=http://archive.wkyc.com/news/article/138140/3/Investigator-Exclusive-Money-decided-in-strip-search-lawsuit |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-11-18 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20141119001724/http://archive.wkyc.com/news/article/138140/3/Investigator-Exclusive-Money-decided-in-strip-search-lawsuit |archive-date=2014-11-19 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
7. ^http://www.wkyc.com/news/investigative/investigative_article.aspx?storyid=91761&catid=230
8. ^http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=120277
9. ^http://www.wkyc.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=138140 Investigator Exclusive: Money decided in strip-search lawsuit
10. ^http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=109037
11. ^http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=84243{{Dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}
12. ^http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88666{{Dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}